Concentration in Global Business

Today's business leaders must have a world view of business and society that includes cross cultural understanding. The MBA concentration in Global Business is designed to provide you with a specific focus on business practices and management challenges in the global arena.  You may choose from various international opportunities, including study abroad, to fulfill curriculum requirements toward this concentration.

Resources & Experiential Opportunities:

• International Opportunities: Take advantage of one of the many opportunities to spend time abroad during your MBA experience.
• Business Language Tutoring: Gail foreign language proficiency, learn to communicate comfortably in business and academic situations, better understand economics structures and business practices abroad and prepare for the various abroad opportunities.

Curriculum Requirements
Option A: 12 credit hours
Option B: 9 hours & 1 short semester abroad (equivalent to 1-2 UT courses while abroad)
Option C: 6 hours and 1 long semester abroad (equivalent to 3 or more UT courses while abroad)

Courses approved for the Global Business Concentration:
I B,  All graduate courses with this prefix
FIN 394, Global Finance
MAN 385, Managing and Marketing in the Global Arena
MKT 382, Invisible Global Marketing
RM 395, Managing International Risk
MIS 382/PA 388K, Global Challenges to National Innovations Systems
PA 388K, Politics & Policies of International Development
UT Foreign Language, 3 credit hours

Note: Only one I B 391 - Directed Studies Global Management (Global Connections) course can be counted towards the Global Business concentration.

Faculty contact: Kate Gillespie